ENTRY #5 Culture Taboo

Hi Everyone

This entry we would like to discuss about taboo in our Malay community. Too many taboo that has been presented to us especially when we were children. As a child, I always wondered whether the prohibition is true or plot.  


Among the common taboo I have heard are as follows:
"do not changes a lot of places during eat, later you will married many times". The reason is the food was scattered, difficult to clean.

Second taboo, “do not sit on the pillow, lest infected boils around the anus”. It sounds very strange. But then I realize now, use pillows to lay the head, not the anus. So it is not polite to sit on it.

Ok .. There is also forbidden taboo that it sounds very prank. It sounds like this, “girls who are not married can not sing in the kitchen, as feared would be delayed marriage”. Perghhhhh … Very terrible and obsessive thought all girls kan? As a precaution, many girls afraid to sing in the kitchen. They decided to sing in the toilet, they bark with emotions and think of themselves is like Jaclyn Victor. I took a long time to find the answer. But on this day there may be truth to the assumption that I have derived from the bosom. From my opinion, when girls singing in the kitchen, there is a possibility they will be splashed saliva into the dish or food in the pot.

“Do not point finger towards the rainbow, the consequences of your finger will be crippled”. O Allah! I have heard horror. If I noticed about the existence of the rainbow, I will soon hide the finger into the pocket. But I think that the prohibition was made because our ancestors worried because rainbow appears indicating drizzle. So if we drabble rain, we’ll fever. Correct?

"Do not seeing your sweetheart 40 days before the Ijab Kabul". It's certainly not encouraged to see your future husband or wife within the 40 days before the Ijab Kabul (holy matrimony) is taking place. It's done so to avoid the future newlyweds from imputation of society as well as other bad things.

"Do not urinate on termite bunk, or your (male) penis might be swollen. The reason is first, it is impolite to wee-wee out of nowhere. Secondly, a bunk might be a resting place for supernatural spirits and it might curse anyone who mess up their place.

These are only few examples that we show to you. As you can see, all of those examples that we show you have one thing in common. They are used an indirect moral lesson to children so that the children will be well behaved and discipline. In Malay reference to our project in the future.